The Heart of the Continent: A Record of Travel Across the Plains and in Oregon, with an Examination of the Mormon PrincipleHurd and Houghton, 1871 - 568 Seiten |
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... sage brush . This was the first place where sage , so called ( though I believe it is properly an artemisia ) , becomes the prominent feature of the Overland land . • scape , though it occurs previously at intervals all the INTO THE ...
... sage brush . This was the first place where sage , so called ( though I believe it is properly an artemisia ) , becomes the prominent feature of the Overland land . • scape , though it occurs previously at intervals all the INTO THE ...
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... sage . From Camp Halleck to the Wa- satch , almost the only vegetable life not distinctly arborescent greets the traveller's eye in the shape of limitless wastes abandoned to this scrubby sage , and the equally scrubby but somewhat ...
... sage . From Camp Halleck to the Wa- satch , almost the only vegetable life not distinctly arborescent greets the traveller's eye in the shape of limitless wastes abandoned to this scrubby sage , and the equally scrubby but somewhat ...
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... sage - brush , were the quadrupeds who came into our field ; we saw several mourning - doves and plovers ; and , coming down into the valley again , made unavailing search along the brook for a wonderful " fish with hands , " which the ...
... sage - brush , were the quadrupeds who came into our field ; we saw several mourning - doves and plovers ; and , coming down into the valley again , made unavailing search along the brook for a wonderful " fish with hands , " which the ...
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... of some petrified brain , now softened by distance , and having their gramma and sage - brush lighted by the intensest sun , looked like a flock of Cyclop sheep , whose woolly backs were rounded 232 THE HEART OF THE CONTINENT .
... of some petrified brain , now softened by distance , and having their gramma and sage - brush lighted by the intensest sun , looked like a flock of Cyclop sheep , whose woolly backs were rounded 232 THE HEART OF THE CONTINENT .
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... by lichens on the surface of a stone . At Sage Creek , an inconsiderable but unfailing riv- ulet , fed from the snow - peaks , and about fourteen miles from the North Platte crossing , we met for THE APPROACH TO SALT LAKE CITY . 239.
... by lichens on the surface of a stone . At Sage Creek , an inconsiderable but unfailing riv- ulet , fed from the snow - peaks , and about fourteen miles from the North Platte crossing , we met for THE APPROACH TO SALT LAKE CITY . 239.
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